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[Robert Raszuk <raszuk@cisco.com>]

Yes as I said before one form of such a FEC would be a static route.

R.

> bhawna gupta wrote:
> 
> How about using FEC's. Would it be possible to explicitly configure a FEC
> and make it point to a tunnel.
> 
> Policy based routing was something that I had not considered, thanks for the
> suggestion.
> 
> Regards
> Bhawna.
> 
> >From: Robert Raszuk <raszuk@cisco.com>
> >Reply-To: raszuk@cisco.com
> >To: bhawna gupta <sgbhawna@hotmail.com>
> >CC: mpls-ops@mplsrc.com
> >Subject: Re: Assigning traffic to MPLS tunnels
> >Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 17:44:05 +0100
> >
> >Hi Bhawna,
> >
> > > the other tunnel.  To extend it, how can we do some kind of load
> >balancing
> > > among the two tunnels.
> >
> >By default you will loadbalance the traffic among parallel tunnels with
> >the ratio proportional to your configured bw on the tunnels. Remember
> >that we use cef src/dst hash so with a little number of flows you may be
> >using for a test the result may not be very visible.
> >
> >The above should address your question, but just for completness you can
> >cfg a static route to point to a tunnel or use PBR with any acl to also
> >direct your incomming traffic to a tunnel. All are available, but I am
> >not convinced if you really will need them :).
> >
> >Rgs,
> >R.
> >
> >
> > > bhawna gupta wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >     I have a quick question on assigning traffic to a particular MPLS
> >tunnel
> > > in Cisco routers. (Pardon me if this question has been covered earlier.
> >I
> > > have just joined)
> > >
> > > If there are two MPLS tunnels of equal OSPF cost for the same
> >destination ,
> > > is there any way that we could specify the incoming traffic to take one
> >or
> > > the other tunnel.  To extend it, how can we do some kind of load
> >balancing
> > > among the two tunnels.
> > >
> > > Will FECs help in some way ?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Bhawna
> > >
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